Genius Game: Interview with Game Designer Alex McMillan
RHAP: We Know Reality TV
Friends of Rob Has a Podcast
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
From the Big Brother house to the Survivor beach to now—The Genius arena! Join brothers Cory and Zach Wurtenberger as they launch a brand-new RHAP series, We Know The Genius, diving deep into the mind-bending brilliance of The Genius and the new UK iteration – Genius Game.
Today, Zach and Dwight Moore talk to the game designer of Genius Game, Alex McMillian.
Genius Game is a strategic reality competition where contestants face off in a series of high-stakes mental challenges, social manipulation, and alliances to outwit and outlast each other. Each round tests players’ intelligence, adaptability, and psychological tactics as they vie for advantages and survival.
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| 0:49.2 | I am so excited to be here. |
| 0:50.9 | It has been way too long, and I am here with some incredible guests. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm going to be interviewing a game designer here. I knew I had someone here in and out. |
| 1:02.8 | It's not only quite more. Wait. How are you doing? Doing great. I'm excited to be talking about |
| 1:07.5 | some games today. I love games. I've talked before. I love like the rules learning of stuff. So I'm really excited to get to talk about this. So I'm glad to get to be talking about the games today. I love games. I've talked before. I love like the |
| 1:11.0 | rules learning of stuff. So I'm really excited to get to talk about this. So I'm glad to get to |
| 1:14.7 | be here. Thank you. And we have a very special guest. Alex, who is one of the people who |
| 1:20.7 | actually worked on the games team for Genius Game to answer all of her questions about everything that went down this season of Genius Game. It is Alex Macmillan. Alex, how are you doing? |
| 1:33.3 | I'm doing great, Zach. It's lovely to see you and Dwight. Thank you so much for having me on. |
| 1:37.3 | Alex, so obviously I feel like being part of like a game team for a reality show it's not really the kind of job |
| 1:46.0 | that you hear about a career day so i'm just curious like what was your backstory with i guess |
| 1:50.9 | strategy games in general with uh reality tv in general how did you get this job and uh like |
| 1:58.7 | and the genius as well specifically so how did you get this job in the first place? Where did it all |
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